Hairy Children Portraits by Erik Mark Sandberg. His show opens tonight at Johanssen-Gallery in Berlin.

Pa++ern is a new project by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi. They basically hooked up an embroidery machine with Twitter. A special language was developed to encode designs in the 140 character limit of Twitter. I guess the images below show you how it works.
You can go and see it from this Saturday on at the Beams Gallery in Tokyo.

On the left you can see the tweet: [ <<<^],+[vv],[^],+[>],[v], >>+n[^],[>],vvv[<],vvv+[n>], >>+[^],, >>+[v],, [>^<]>,>n+[>],[v],[<n],[^].
And on the right the graphical translation.

Of course, some more complex designs are possible too.

Maison Martin Margiela killed it again with its Artisanal Fall 2009 collection. They must have a big laugh at everyone who take the whole fashion circus too seriously. Their message to the normal people is probably DIY, just go to your local hardware store, buy anything and wear it.

Here are some very colorful beauty shots made by the Spanish photographer Paco Peregrín.

found at dropular

Etirement is a light designed by Rémi Bouhaniche. I guess you tell from the image how it works … You can switch the light on by pulling the rod down, the more you pull it down the brighter the light gets.

found at dezeen

Nami is the Japanese word for wave, but it’s also the title of a photobook by Syoin Kajii.

found at dropular

tha ltd. has just launched a new website for SCR, its creative label intended to serve as a platform for artworks and projects emerging from the recent digital/network media movements. They produce, develop, and sell various interactive art / software / motion-based projects. You might remember their Dropclock screensaver from last year.
Beside the relaunch, they also added 6 new pieces. 4 of them are made by Brendan Dawes, Delaware, Andreas Müller and Theodore Watson, the other 2, which I like best, by tha ltd. themselves.

MUG SHOOTER by tha ltd.

MUG SHOOTER is a screensaver that takes a unique mug shot of you and shares it to the world. A special camera that uses the automatic face recognition system morphs your facial expressions as you move parts of your face. Play around, have fun, and post a unique mug shot of yourself! (Please note, this screensaver displays the 50 most recent posts only, and old images will be automatically deleted. Your posts will be displayed for a limited time of around 1 ~ 10 days.)

CRASHCLOCK by tha ltd.

CRASHCLOCK is a screensaver that depicts the destruction of 4 truss structures falling vertically against the ground in slow motion.

This project is based on a project “CRASH” which was created for an exhibition called “bones” directed by Shunji Yamanaka at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT.

Leonid Brezhnev‘s eyebrows lived their own life.

found at graphics interchange format

Fuck by Dave Franzese.

The Keystone Design Union is global creative network. Someone did this awesome illustration for their Solstice book. Do you know who?

UPDATE 08/07/2009 14:45
Alissia Melka-Teichroew let me know that Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic is the illustrator of this piece.
Thank you Alissia!

UPDATE 23/07/2009 14:07
Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic just contacted me to let me know he isn’t illustrator but Josh Vanover is.